wish you were here album back cover

The album would go on to sell over 50 million copies and still moves copies to this day, standing as one of the most commercially successful albums of all time. More than anything, it's just an arresting visual image. A smile from a veil? Pink Floyd originally released Wish You Were Here written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters and Pink Floyd released it on the album Wish You Were Here in 1975. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? Wish You Were Here was sold in one of the more elaborate packages to ever accompany a Pink Floyd album.Storm Thorgerson had accompanied the band on their 1974 tour, and had given serious thought to the meaning of the lyrics, eventually deciding that the songs were, in general, concerned with “unfulfilled presence”, rather than Barrett’s illness. ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1975) album liner bag, designed by Storm Thorgerson. No clue why they toyed with it, but the elements are the same: burning man burns the paper it's printed on while shaking hands in an abandoned Hollywood lot. Wish You Were Here: In my Hipgnosis round-up, I used the original layout of this cover, not the subsequent CD reissue depicted above. It was also covered by Will Brotherton, Seguridad Social, Andrés Calamaro, Cody Jinks and other artists. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (1975) So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain.